Netflix's The Innocents might be the most "Netflixy" dramatic series ever made

The Atlantic

The British teen supernatural drama series, with a cast that includes Guy Pearce, is "the kind of show where every element feels directly lifted from another Netflix hit and mashed up into a slightly awkward creation," says Sophie Gilbert. "There’s the doomed but touchingly pure teenage romance (13 Reasons Why). The young couple running away together with minimal planning and for reasons that are lightly sketched at best (The End of the F***ing World). The misfit with strange gifts being pursued by a doctor with vague intentions (The OA). And the fact that about two hours of actual plot is stretched out into a much puffier whole, and that the action rolls at such a gradual pace that even the actors seem to have visibly aged by the series finale (add your own example—there are plenty to choose from)."

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